A guide to third sector trading - WCVA
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It’s an idea, but is it business? A <strong>guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>third</strong> sec<strong>to</strong>r <strong>trading</strong><br />
1: Getting<br />
started<br />
2: First steps 3: Business<br />
planning<br />
4: Legal and<br />
governance<br />
5: Funding<br />
and<br />
resourcing<br />
6: Financial<br />
controls<br />
7: Managing<br />
growth<br />
8: Management<br />
and<br />
governance<br />
9: Social<br />
enterprise<br />
10: Sources<br />
of support<br />
• Projects for people with disabilities: Council social service<br />
departments have often been happy <strong>to</strong> contract with<br />
development trusts and other charitable and community groups<br />
<strong>to</strong> deliver projects which provide social and employment<br />
opportunities for people with physical and learning disabilities.<br />
• Childcare: A few years ago some community groups were<br />
developing nurseries for pre-school age children. The market<br />
has declined since schools started <strong>to</strong> provide nurseries for threeand<br />
four-year-olds, and the <strong>third</strong> sec<strong>to</strong>r is in competition with<br />
private nurseries. Efforts <strong>to</strong> run fee-charging after-school clubs<br />
as self-supporting enterprises are proving problematic.<br />
Services abandoned by the private sec<strong>to</strong>r: Classic examples<br />
are village shops and post offices. Rural transport schemes,<br />
petrol stations and pubs are sometimes seen in the same light.<br />
For example:<br />
• The community in Llanbadarn in Powys, conveniently located<br />
on a main north-south trunk route through central Wales runs a<br />
shop, post office and petrol station which they <strong>to</strong>ok over when a<br />
private business closed.<br />
• The Blaengwynfi Community Co-operative <strong>to</strong>ok over the<br />
running of the local grocery s<strong>to</strong>re in the remote Neath Port<br />
Talbot village of Blaenllynfi in the 1980s when the Co-operative<br />
Wholesale Society pulled out. The shop is still open and plays a<br />
major part in community life.<br />
Community recreation and leisure:<br />
• Cwmaman Institute near Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taff is one<br />
of the largest of many older community buildings which have<br />
been adapted <strong>to</strong> accommodate gyms, cinemas and theatres and<br />
other income generating activities.<br />
• The Tonmawr 2000 gymnasium in the isolated village of<br />
Tonmawr near Neath is an unusual example of a purpose-built<br />
resource which was established using Welsh Office funding in<br />
the early 1990s. The challenge of sustainability was addressed<br />
by using rental income from letting adjoining unit fac<strong>to</strong>ries.<br />
Environmental and alternative technology projects:<br />
Successful initiatives – Ecodyfi’s wind farm projects, Dinas<br />
Mawddwy community biomass heating, Talybont-on-Usk<br />
community hydro scheme – are spreading rapidly throughout<br />
Wales and some are successfully generating income.<br />
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